The Morning Heresy 6/6/12: No Archaeopteryx Allowed

June 6, 2012

So last night was interesting. Both in orbit around the Sun and in the voting booths of Wisconsin, two entirely predictable things happened that were also kind of stunning. Greg Laden is hopping mad about one of them (the one not about Earth's sister planet), and Kylie Sturgess was hopping excited about the other (the one not about union-related political tumult).

CFI chief Ron Lindsay has a smart look at the differences between coming out as gay and coming out as atheist:

There’s a big difference between being gay and being an atheist. Someone can persuade you to be an atheist; no one is going to persuade you to be gay (no matter what the extremist anti-gay propaganda says). I don’t foresee a best-selling book entitled The Straight Delusion or Heterosexuality Poisons Everything. The LGBT community wants acceptance; they don’t want to persuade others to join their "team," and even if they had that objective, they would strive for it in vain.

It means a lot of horrible fundamentalist shit dressed up as Religious Liberty and allowed to proceed, no matter how illegal it would be in any other context.

The CFI Center Stage podcast has part one of a panel discussion between Susan Jacoby, Michelle Goldberg, and Marianne Mollman on "Women's Rights as Human Rights" at CFI-NYC

Now here's an interesting grouping: PZ Myers, Chris Stedman, Leslie Cannol, and Meredith Doig gather after the Global Atheist Convention to talk about theists and nontheists working together (via Kylie)

It's not just here: Creationists have veto power over South Korea's educational system too (Goodbye, Archaeopteryx!)

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Paul Fidalgo has been communications director of the Center for Inquiry since 2012. He holds a master’s degree in political management from George Washington University, and has worked previously for FairVote: The Center for Voting and Democracy and the Secular Coalition for America. Paul is also an actor and musician whose work includes five years performing with the American Shakespeare Center. He lives in Maine with his wife and kids. His blog at the Patheos network is iMortal, and he tweets at @paulfidalgo.